Everyone needs compassion
And love that never fails
Let mercy fall on me

When everyone needs forgiveness
Kindness of the Saviour
The Hope of the nation

Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave

So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything that i believe in
Now i surrender

Shine a light in and
let the whole world see
Singing, for the glory of the risen king
Jesus, Shine a light and
let the whole world see
Singing for the glory of the risen king

Ern Chuen
Ex-Lasallian and RV High Year 1
Passionate, living and standing for Christ!!
Badminton, Christian gospel music, Family and Friends.

-4:17 PM

From reading my previous post, you might think breakthrough comes immediately. It doesn't. In fact, the enemy would attack you even more after an encounter with the Holy Spirit. I still occasionally grieve the Holy Spirit and succumb to enemy attack. Just did the same wrong thing again, and was completely oblivious. Then suddenly I snapped back and realised what I've done. Until now, I couldn't believe it. How sudden the attack was(only 5mins ago). Let this be a reminder to any Christians reading this that the enemy strikes when least expected. And so, I could almost hear the Holy Spirit's grief. I felt like I was just a few mistakes away from losing that fire again. But then I played this song.
http://www.castingcrowns.com/-- Go here to listen to that song.
Song: East to West
Artist: Casting Crowns
Here I am Lord and I'm drowning,
In your sea of forgetfulness.
The chains of yesterday surround me,
I yearn for peace and rest.
Don't want to end up where you found me,
And it echoes in my mind,
Keeps me awake tonight.

I know you cast my sin as far as,
The East is from the West.
And I stand before you now as though I've never sin.
But today I feel like I'm just one more step away,
From you leaving me this way.

(Chorus)
Jesus can you show me just how
Far the East is from the West.
Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been,
Come rising up in me again.
In the arms of your mercy I found rest.
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West.
From one scarred hand to the other.

I start the day, the war begins.
Endless reminding of my sin.
And time and time again,
Your truth is drowned out my the storm I'm in.
Today I feel like I'm just one more step away,
From you leaving this way.

(Chorus)

(Bridge)
I know you washed me right.
Turned my darkness into life.
I need your peace to get me through,
To get me through this night.
I can't live by what I feel,
But by the truth Your word reveals
I'm not holding onto You,
But You're holding on to me.
You're holding on to me.

Jesus You know just how
Far the East is from the West.
Cause I don't need to see the man I've been,
Come rising up in me again.
In the arms of your mercy I found rest.
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West.
From one scarred hand to the other.

Beautiful. I declare victory into my daily life. The sin I bear is sin already paid for. Releasing it.
Right now.

Cause you know just how far the East is from the West. From one scarred hand to the other.


-9:51 PM

Amazing. Last week, I was expecting a awesome service. But I was awed at how God worked. It was really, indescribable.
Worship time was amazing. Already could feel God moving. Wasn't prepared for what was in store next. Sermon came with Pastor Gary preaching Part 2 of the Holy Spirit. And as soon as he started preaching, every word began to impact me. I immediately felt a stirring within my spiritual waters, as the Holy Spirit started to tug at my heart. Every word hit me. I began to look back and see how many times I have grieved the Holy Spirit, how many times I lost the daily battle. And my spiritual waters were stirring into a whirpool. "If you do not want to grieve the holy spirit, the only thing you can do is surrender. there's no other way." Those words sealed the deal for me. I was to surrender myself fully.
Altar-call time was the most amazing altar-call I've ever had. As I stood at the front, I could not stand up any longer as the Holy Spirit did His work in me. I dropped to my knees. Just cried out "I'm desperate for Your fire again! I surrender!" And this consuming fire began to burn in me, and I could no longer knee upright in the presence of God's glory. I sank onto my hands, crying out over and over again. I tried to knee upright but could only hold it for a while before sinking back down; such was the power of the Holy Spirit. And this still voice began to speak,"I will restore to you that fire; and you shall bring that fire into your school."It was just amazing. To have such a personal encounter. To have a fire restored. To be on my knees in desperation, in the presence of the great I AM. To be touched by the Holy Spirit.
The consuming fire is now burning in Ignyte.

Heal my heart and make it clean. Open up my eyes to the things unseen. Show me how to love like You have loved me. Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for your kingdom's cause, as I walk from earth into eternity.


-12:07 PM

So many things to post, so little time to do so. Therefore I shall post in seperate posts to avoid confusion. Next week signals the beginning of the start of the homework pile. Better post now before I not post for 2 long months.
E&C week overall was great. But I believe the highlight of E&C week is either kayaking or the camp. The camp was super fun. Really. I couldn't Xiao Hui would miss it.
19/7/07
Camp officially begins. First was the boring briefing, after that was a leadership talk. Coach Elgin was speaking to our class. Was quite good. Yeah, it's kinda cliche, but still, it was good.
After that was the scavenger hunt. Kinda simple, how the game works. We were divided into groups--I was with Roy, Yucheng, Livia and Jiawei. Firstly, teacher would show us a picture of a particular place in the school. We were suppose to go to that place and find a board that shows the answer to a question given to us in a worksheet. And yeah, we had to hold hands through the entire thing. Was like dragging my entire group along. With the worksheet in my mouth. So in the end I tore the worksheet up. But the funnest part about the scavenger hunt was when we were in class waiting for our turn to come. Me and qihao were acting retarded. Cause we were plannig for the class performance later and me and qihao were coming up with really "creative" ideas. There is a youtube vidoe, but i refuse to put it here. I will not be humiliated further. In the end, our good ideas were rejected. C'est la vie. In the end we would be singing an edited version of "Home".
After that was lunch. Nothing much to say. Accept that we played basketball. Seriously, can't keep away from sports for one day. After that was our preparation for the performance. And honestly, we didn't go anywhere. CR and Charmaine took half an hour just to seperate us into 2 groups. Ok, I admit I have some part to play in the chaos. But still...at least we got some practice...
Telematch. We would be playing with 1E. First game was 3-legged soccer--They tied us together with strings and we were suppose to play football. Think it's easy? Well, our uncoordinated movement you make hurts real bad. Guess who were the player of the day? Me and Qihao. Goalkeepers, we stop like 10 goals. In the end, class won 1-0.
Next was water babies. We were suppose to pass down water packets down the row using towels, and pour the water away into the bucket. Our class owned really bad. Thrashed the other class. Really badly.
Next was chair race. Won't go into detail of that game....because our class lost. Barely.
Ice cream break. Do i have to say more?
Last game was all the classes together. suppose to take sweets from flour. Sounds cliche right? I thought so. So i dove into the flour. Entire face was covered. Ran back to the container, dropped my sweets into it, and vomited beside it. Sick man. All my ice cream earlier on had been transfered from my gut to the floor. Still, after recovering, I went back one more time. Really sick.
Wash-up time. Thank goodness. Covered in flour. Me, Darren and Cyrus waited for the toilets to clear up before going. Bathed using high pressure hoses(the one the use to water plants) and buckets. Don't want to go into detail...
Dinner-time. Buffet. Really long queue. So while waiting for the queue to shorten, i went to the grandstand for some quiet time. Really quiet-time. So peaceful at the grandstand. And there, I just had some time alone with God. Really quiet time. Looked at the sunset. One of the best sunsets I've ever seen. Ended of my quiet time with "How Great is our God'. Cool isn't it? Still can have TAWG even in camp.
Class performance was next. Oh crap. I knew it wouldn't be good. Then, Cyrus gave me and Qihao a chance to perform solo in the stage. Yeah. Just to add on, me and Qihao do not care whether we make a fool out of ourselves. Do i have to say further? We performed solo in front of the entire school(after the song performance). I think they laughed real bad. When me and Qihao left the stage, we were like hiding our faces. Really, really embarassing. Can i just say the principal was there?
After that, me and Qihao went to bathe again. Went to our rooms. Did nothing really, except play cards and tell ghost story. Tell until laugh like siao. Tried to go to sleep. Impossible to sleep with Qihao. Amazingly, I got sleep.
Next day woke up at 5:30. Brush teeth, make-up(kidding) went to warm-up for the day. By playing basketball. When there is barely any light. Couldn't even see the hoop. Went to hall for mass dance. Cleared up the field, ate breakfast. Went back to class to discuss the montage. Went to hall for prize presentation. Didn't win anything. But still, I'm proud of 1F. After that, Residential Camp@RV officially came to a close.
Now looking back, I can see, with relief, that this is the same class, the same school, which I fell in love with 6mths ago.


-6:16 PM




-9:51 PM

Have you realised something all you Ignyte people out there(And i am sure very few Ignyte people read this)? I realised that something last saturday during service. Every Ignyte service has been getting more awesome and awesome. Not only that, but FUEL too. Every Ignyte service I feel the annointing growing stronger. Every Ignyte service I feel His presence more and more. Every Ignyte service the Holy Spirit is working more and more powerfully. Don't you feel it? Don't you feel the hunger being stirred and the generation's hearts are broken for what is God's? Don't you feel it? I am quite sure that you probably figured out by now that last week's service and FUEL was awesome. I sense an open heaven over the entire Ignyte ministry, where this generation will not settle for what we have now and is desperate for more and more. Desperation. More.
Just checked out lot's of blogs which I have never visited before, for example, Benn and Ariel's blog. Was reading Laura's blog, decided to go and check out their blogs. Yeah, I was reading their posts. By goodness. That is what I call a strong walk with God. I mean you can feel the closeness in their walk just by reading their posts. You know, that is the standard i should really aim for. But that was before I read the MIT(Mission Impact team)'s blog. www.i-fisherofmen.blogspot.com. Read it. See what God is doing through Ignyte. I have made up my mind. The next MIT trip. I'm definately going.
I know that God is really moving powerfully now. And I know that the work He is doing, it is only the beginning.

I'm hungry for you fire.
I'm desperate, You're my one desire.
Jesus, please don't pass me by.


-3:33 PM

Played Out: Reality Bites. Awesome. To those people who I invited but couldn't come, I don't feel sad because you didn't come. Haha. I feel sad for you because you didn't come. Really, if only you came. Cause this was one of the best Ignyte events. Cause God moved freely in that auditorium. Cause His awesome work was done in many lives.
27th to 29th June. The 3-day prayer fast. The event, to me, wouldn't have gone so well if not for this 3-day prayer fast. For the first time, we had this prayer chain in which people would call up each other and pray. And it was obvious that intense spiritual war was going on. I was extremely close from being late, as things were delayed. Clearly, Satan doesn't want those prayers to be offered cause when 2 or more people gather in the name of Jesus, even he will begin to tremble. But those prayers were offered. Those 30mins prayer was one of the most solid prayers I've ever prayed. Cause God's presence was in the room I was praying in. The amazing time is just after praying one prayer, my throat was already dried up and my feet were tired (cause I can never pray seated, i was walking around the room through the entire prayer). But my spirit didn't grow weaker, but the annointing grew stronger. I would get so fired up by the prayer that I would just dumped my prayer booklet away and pray purely from the Spirit. Hah. Occasionally, I would get too fired up and start jumping. Yup. Jumping. Imagine that. Don't laugh. So yeah, Laura, that's how I pray. Open to the Holy Spirit. When you have the urge to say something or do something, do it. Jumping included.
Finally, the event day arrived. Was kind of disappointed because none of my friends could turn up. And by the way, I invited 10 friends. Hah. Still, I was really excited, cause I knew God is going to do an awesome work. Didn't really know where was "The Summit". Or how big "The Summit" was. When the gates were finally opened, I rushed inside with friends. I took one look at the Summit, and I felt a burning within me. Immediately, my thoughts went back to one of my posts last year....the one just the day before Watchnight service. The post was on 30/12/2006. Exact quotes. "Tomorrow will be Watchnight service, the last night the entire Ignyte will stand together in the same auditorium. I believe that Ignyte will be used by God for great exploits. One day, and I am really looking forward to that day, both Ignyte@Adam and Ignyte@PL will join together in one massive service, fillling up PL's 1000-seat auditorium, standing once again together to worship the great I AM. " Prophetic eh? Although it wasn't exactly 1000 people. But to see 700 people filling up "The Summit" was an amazing sight, a testimony to the faithfulness of God and the growth Ignyte has experience. Wow. The experience had begun.
DJ—Sis Raine. Very funny leh. Kept promoting the free food and drinks at the side, by entire row took a lot a lot of snacks. We were like eating through the entire production. Emcees—Bro Kahfai and Sis Fran, started the event by warming us up with Snakes and Ladders. Also Very funny leh.
Drama finally started. The starting was even more funny. Hah. Then, as the plot developed, the drama became less and less funny and more and more serious. After the drama were the testimonies of the 2 people that actually went through exactly what was shown in the drama. 2 testimonies of the grace of God still at work in people's lives. Sis Raine started singing this familiar yet beautiful song, "Jesus take the wheel". After that was a short sermon by Ps. Derick. And the love of God began to flow freely, touching people, stirring up their stagnant spiritual waters. Finally, the call for salvation. And the entire Ignyte watched as countless people took the plunge into that whirlpool of healing water, as the spiritual waters were beginning to be stireed up. Truly, no greater sight than this, to see people make the decision that will change their life. And when Ps. Derick had led them in the Sinner's prayer, the entire Ignyte, along with the entire heaven, rejoiced. Played Out: Reality Bites saw breakthrough and revival happen in many lives.
Now, looking back at it, I stand in awe of the one who gave it all. I stand humbled by the awesome grace of God. 700 present. 126 seeds sowed. 60 Salvations. More to come. 2 amazing testimonies. 1 even more amazing God. Played Out: Reality Bites. God has moved. This is just the beginning.

Lassalian Friends

link

link

ShAwN

ShErRy

link

link

archives

April 2006 May 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008

[ ]